In Reply to: Wonderful CD's you may have forgotten about in your own collection? posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 7, 2012 at 12:58:14:
The only one of these CDs I'll comment on is the first on the list. As a Rachmaninoff nut, and my favorite of his symphonies being the 1st, I've had this for years. I bought it, listened to it, put it in its appointed spot alphabetically in the collection, and there it has gathered dust since. There are several fine recordings of the Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1. This is not among them.
At the time, I had no other recordings of the Dohnanyi Festival Overture to compare to this one and was not familiar with the Debussy songs, so those were just "filler" for me at the time. I might give the CD a listen again, just to see how I like his take on those.
What an odd selection of pieces to put on a CD. They have nothing in common. Which is sort of the way I always felt about his performances of the Rachmaninoff piano concertos. Kinda weird. Certainly not "desert island" choices.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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